Psalms 79:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.

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  • Ps 80:6 : 6 You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.
  • Ps 89:41 : 41 All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.
  • Jer 24:9 : 9 I will give them up to be a cause of fear and of trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth; to be a name of shame and common talk and a cutting word and a curse in all the places wherever I will send them wandering.
  • Jer 25:18 : 18 Jerusalem and the towns of Judah and their kings and their princes, to make them a waste place, a cause of fear and surprise and a curse, as it is this day;
  • Jer 42:18 : 18 For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: As my wrath and passion have been let loose on the people of Jerusalem, so will my passion be let loose on you when you go into Egypt: and you will become an oath and a cause of wonder and a curse and a name of shame; and you will never see this place again.
  • Lam 2:15-16 : 15 All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth? 16 All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.
  • Lam 5:1 : 1 Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.
  • Ezek 35:12 : 12 And you will see that I the Lord have had knowledge of all the bitter things which you have said against the mountains of Israel, saying, They have been made waste, they are given to us to take for our heritage.
  • Ezek 36:3 : 3 For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the Lord has said: Because, even because they have been glad over you and put you to shame on every side, because you have become a heritage for the rest of the nations, and you are taken up on the lips of talkers and in the evil talk of the people:
  • Ezek 36:15 : 15 And I will not let the shaming of the nations come to your ears, and no longer will you be looked down on by the peoples, says the Lord.
  • Dan 9:16 : 16 O Lord, because of your righteousness, let your wrath and your passion be turned away from your town Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because, through our sins and the evil-doing of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a cause of shame to all who are round about us.
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.
  • 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.
  • Neh 2:19 : 19 But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?
  • Neh 4:1-4 : 1 Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews. 2 And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Such is their building that if a fox goes up it, their stone wall will be broken down. 4 Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:
  • Ps 44:13-14 : 13 You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us. 14 Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

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    13 You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

    14 Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

    15 My downfall is ever before me, and I am covered with the shame of my face;

    16 Because of the voice of him who says sharp and bitter words; because of the hater and him who is the instrument of punishment.

    17 All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.

  • Ps 80:6
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    6 You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.

  • Ps 89:41
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    41 All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.

  • Neh 4:4
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    4 Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:

  • Lam 3:45-46
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    45 You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.

    46 The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.

  • Jer 51:51
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    51 We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men from strange lands have come into the holy places of the Lord's house.

  • Lam 5:1-2
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    1 Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

    2 Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.

  • Ps 31:11
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    11 Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

  • Ps 79:3
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    3 Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.

  • Ps 123:3-4
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    3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.

    4 For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.

  • Ps 79:12
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    12 And give punishment seven times over into the breast of our neighbours for the bitter words which they have said against you, O Lord.

  • Jer 9:19
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    19 For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

  • Lam 3:14
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    14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

  • Ps 79:5
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    5 How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?

  • Ps 109:25
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    25 As for me, they make sport of me; shaking their heads when they see me.

  • Job 18:3
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    3 Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

  • Lam 4:17-20
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    17 Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

    18 They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.

    19 Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

    20 Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes; of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.

  • Ps 44:9-11
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    9 But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies.

    10 Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.

    11 You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

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    13 When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.

  • Jer 3:24
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    24 But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

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    8 And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.

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    10 O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

  • Dan 9:7
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    7 O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.

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    11 And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.

  • Jer 14:19
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    19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

  • Ezek 5:14
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    14 And I will make you a waste and a name of shame among the nations round about you, in the eyes of everyone who goes by.

  • Ps 17:11
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    11 They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

  • Ps 69:7
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    7 I have been wounded with sharp words because of you; my face has been covered with shame.

  • Neh 2:17
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    17 Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.

  • Ezek 22:5
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    5 Those who are near and those who are far from you will make sport of you; your name is unclean, you are full of sounds of fear.

  • Ps 89:50
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    50 Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart;

  • Ps 90:7
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    7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.

  • Ezra 9:7
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    7 From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.

  • Ps 22:7
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    7 I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

  • Ps 44:19
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    19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

  • Job 19:3
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    3 Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

  • Mic 2:4
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    4 In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.

  • Jer 4:8
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    8 For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.